Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rome--Mussolini drafts ultimatum to Abyssinia, demanding "complete satisfaction" for killing of Italian troops; nearly 100,000 youths mobilized as preparedness move...
...Peking made the general manager of Associated Press grab his grey fedora and dash for Washington. He was promptly received by the Secretary of State. Together they bent over a long, incredible dispatch signed Frederick Moore. It purported to reveal that the Chinese Republic had just received a secret ultimatum from the Japanese Empire to the following effect: The President of China must accept Japanese protection of China and in return must sign over certain powers to the Emperor of Japan. These powers included control of the Chinese Army, the Chinese Navy, the Chinese Treasury, the Chinese Police and other...
Could so outrageous an ultimatum ever have been delivered? Incredulous, the Secretary of State decided to ask the Japanese Ambassador. At the Japanese Embassy delicious tea and convincing denials were served to Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan and Associated Press General Manager Melville Stone by bland Japanese Ambassador Tsuneo Chinda. They came away apologetic, and President Stone cabled a thoroughgoing rebuke to Correspondent Moore-who had in fact obtained the scoop of the year, Japan's now famed Twenty-One Demands of 1915. After these demands proved authentic Secretary Bryan asked Ambassador Chinda...
...Pittsburgh last week during the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting (see p. 50) Dr. Hooton delivered a tart ultimatum : "What we must avoid is a progressive deterioration of mankind as a result of the reckless and copious breeding of protected inferiors. We have not the knowledge to breed supermen, but we can limit the reproduction of criminals and mental defectives. Let us cease to delude ourselves that education, religion or other measures of social amelioration can transform base metal into gold. Public enemies must be destroyed-not reformed...
...created to command. It laid down an ultimatum to movie producers: Either cease productions of indecent shows or we withdraw our patronage. This group was speaking for the Catholics of the U. S., 20,000,000 strong. And as a proof of the power of the church, over 75% of that number, or approximately 16,000,000 Catholics immediately pledged allegiance and obedience to this edict. What greater proof of religion's power of command could one desire...